Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4288 mails)

[scsijon-tpg <scsijon@xxxxxxxxxx>]

From reading all the problems people are having, i'd have prefered yast1 
being there for the change over release with it gone for 8.1, and let the 
people who have to administer the systems have time to work out the 
changeover of their processes at their own rate rather than having to do it 
'cold turkey'. I for one will not be moving my systems up until I am happy 
with it and may look at others as I am less than happy with SuSE's 
processes. There have been too many problems of this type when they have 
had major revisions.

scsijon

At 02:29 PM 4/30/02 -0500, Curtis Rey wrote:
> I greatly miss the features that the older "YaST" provided.  One was the
> single package installation from a local directory.  The other is the ability
> to go to various SuSE ftp sites, such as the supplementary directory and
> "compare" the packages there with those installed on my machine.  For
> instance, I could look at the KDE-Base dir and see if an updated package was
> there.  This was extremely usefull in order to apply patched/fixed packages
> and stabilize KDE.  Now I have to do an "rpm -qv foo" to see what version is
> installed on my system and compare this to the files on the SuSE ftp server.
> This can be very time consuming and labor intensive if one desires to check
> the ftp site package against installed package in the KDE-Apps directory for
> example.
>
> I would urge you to integrate some of these features in YaST2.  I do
> understand you attempts at unifying these to programs.  However, the
> aforemention features would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thank You.  Curtis Rey
>
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